Convoy Number

[robj250]

I searched for this information but was unable to find anything specific.

What I am wondering is, where does the convoy "number" come from. i.e. convoy "UC51"

[Sailor Steve]

The letters are designations telling the starting and ending point of the convoy. Apparently the numbers start at one:
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/oskms/index.html

Click on the first 'clickie' at the upper right (OS.1-OS.31), you'll see all of that group.

[Cpt.Thorne]

Also see here
Atlantic convoys
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/index.html
Arctic
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/arctic.html

Prost!

[robj250]

Also see here
Atlantic convoys
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/index.html
Arctic
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/arctic.html

Prost!

Hi Cpt. Thomas. Not really sure I understand these, but I was wondering what a convoy number would be and where it might have come from if it is in Grid BE and heading toward the UK if it was October 1943 on a course ENE.

[bigboywooly]

Also see here
Atlantic convoys
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/index.html
Arctic
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/arctic.html

Prost!

Hi Cpt. Thomas. Not really sure I understand these, but I was wondering what a convoy number would be and where it might have come from if it is in Grid BE and heading toward the UK if it was October 1943 on a course ENE.

The only way for definate is to look in the rnd layer
Am not sure how accurate the convoys are scripted as regards to routes

[Cpt.Thorne]

Also see here
Atlantic convoys
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/index.html
Arctic
http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/arctic.html

Prost!
Hi Cpt. Thomas. Not really sure I understand these, but I was wondering what a convoy number would be and where it might have come from if it is in Grid BE and heading toward the UK if it was October 1943 on a course ENE.
Just click on the individual convoy. How about thisone.

CONVOY CU 5
Departed New York on Oct. 13-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 24th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" agrees with 19 ships in this convoy.
Transcribed from a document received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
All these ships were tankers, except Shooting Star, and they were all American.
CU 1 through CU 4 had departure port Curacao for Liverpool.
CU 5 started out from New York City to Liverpool.
CU 6 originated in Curacao again.
The rest of the CU series - CU 7 through CU 73 - departed from New York City.
For more info on the CU convoys, please see my page about CU 2 (http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/cu2.html).


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Avonmouth
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Colorado
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Avonmouth / Belfast Dock
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Avonmouth
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Swansea / Clyde
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